How much did food cost in Medieval England?
Foods by social class What people eat in all places and times depends upon who they are (religion/ethnicity), where they lived (London? Seville?), and how much money they had (rich people alway eat better than the poor). Most of the people living in Medieval England were Roman Catholic. Religious doctrines regarding fast and feast days were observed on all levels. Compare and contract these two diets from Medieval England: KING The Forme of Cury, (cookbook of the court of Richard II, 1390) [NOTE: This information, along with original and modernized recipes, is printed in the book To The King’s Taste, Lorna Sass] PEASANT “The basic diet of the peasant consisted of carbohydrates in the form of grain, mostly barley and oats, which were baked or bewed into bread and ale. Protein, in the form of meat and eggs, was in shorter supply, particularly in the earlier part of this period, the thirteenth century. Some fruit and vegetables (such as beans and onions) would have been included in the di
